Professor Yumiao Zhang is the 2018 recipient of UB’s Outstanding Dissertation Award with the dissertation titled "Low-temperature block copolymer processing for biomedical applications."

The award was established by the China Scholarship Council in 2003, and it is considered to be the highest award given by the Chinese government to the graduate student study aboard.

Akash Narani recognized for excellence in the field of bioengineering and significant contributions to AIChE

Zhiyong Gu, professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) received an award for outstanding mentoring of students.

Stella Alimperti, a former member of the Stelios Andreadis research group, has been appointed as principal investigator at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Washington, D.C.